FS in awk

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,
I have a situation where ihave to group the data and put it in the third file.

for eg:
a.txt
Name:[John]
Age:[26]
Sex:[M]
Name:[Fred]
Age:[28]
Sex:[M]

For the file above i need a output as
b.txt
John-26-M
Fred-28-M

the problem is when i use awk i dont know how to select '[' as delimter and in the output it is not delimiting according to John-26-M format using OFS. Any approach is ok other than awk.

Thanks

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